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• Frieze Week 2015 Art Fair Cheat Sheet

  12-05-2015 20:34 via artnews.com
  The Frieze New York 2015 art fair opens to the public in just two days, joined by a number of other fairs that are happening around New York this week. Below, a complete guide to all the Frieze Week 2015 action. FRIEZE NEW … Read More
  
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• Scandal Rocks New Orleans Shiney New Jazz Market

  12-05-2015 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With its inaugural public concert in late April, during Jazz Fest’s opening weekend, Mayfield’s Jazz Market joined Manhattan’s Jazz at Lincoln Center and San Francisco’s SFJazz in the ranks of urban arts center buildings dedicated to jazz. The architecture is similar to SFJazz in appearance, right down to the lettering on its nameplate.”
  
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• Anita Hill and Others Join Rose Art Museum’s Board

  12-05-2015 20:16 via artnews.com
  The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, has appointed five new board members: Lazar Fruchter, Anita Hill, Cynthia Reed, Rivka Saker, and Carey Schwartz. Fruchter is also on the board of the Tel Aviv Art Museum, and … Read More
  
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• Supporters Of Theatre Building Object When Theater Uses Some of The Money To Pay Staff

  12-05-2015 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I know from experience that the public are extremely generous in their financial support for what they think is to benefit the fabric of the building. With this £10,000 flying out of the door I’m sure our generous public will think again about donating.”
  
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• Professor: American Higher Ed Is Failing

  12-05-2015 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Academia is the Titanic. I have suggested that schools stop spending so much money and labor on useless research in the humanities, and instead shift that labor and money to teaching.”
  
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• Canada’s Most-Visited Museum? (Sorry, Toronto)

  12-05-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the second year in a row, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts can claim to be the most-visited art museum in Canada, beating out both the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Slightly more than one million people visited the MMFA in 2014, making it the 58th most popular art museum […]
  
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• What Is It About America’s Inability To Learn Other Languages?

  12-05-2015 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Less than 1 percent of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that they studied in a U.S. classroom. That’s noteworthy considering that in 2008 almost all high schools in the country—93 percent—offered foreign languages, according to a national survey.”
  
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• Bouchra Khalili at Palais de Tokyo, Paris

  12-05-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Bouchra Khalili: Foreign Office” is currently on view at Palais de Tokyo in Paris until Sunday, May 17. The show features new films, photographs, and documents … Read More
  
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• Felicity Powell obituary

  12-05-2015 18:32
  
  Artist, curator and specialist in the creation of medals whose work was exhibited all over the worldMedals are usually given as accolades – for military heroism, for public service, for achievements in various spheres, a traditional and often unremarkable form of expression. The artist and curator Felicity Powell, who has died aged 53 of cancer, worked in many mediums: she trained as a sculptor, and made works in wax, film, and glass, with symbolic and narrative elements. However, the art of t
  
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• Felicity Powell

  12-05-2015 18:32
  
  Artist, curator and specialist in the creation of medals whose work was exhibited all over the worldMedals are usually given as accolades – for military heroism, for public service, for achievements in various spheres, a traditional and often unremarkable form of expression. The artist and curator Felicity Powell, who has died aged 53 of cancer, worked in many mediums: she trained as a sculptor, and made works in wax, film, and glass, with symbolic and narrative elements. However, the art of t
  
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• Stephen A. Schwarzman Donates $150 M. For New Yale Performing Arts Center

  12-05-2015 18:24 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, it was announced that the billionaire Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman will give a $150 million dollar donation to his alma mater Yale, transforming their 114-year-old limestone building Commons into a performing arts center and cultural hub, according … Read More
  
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• $179m Picasso 'could hold world record for a decade'

  12-05-2015 17:48
  
  Whoops greeted sale of Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O) in New York, but auctioneer says price is no surprisePablo Picasso’s 1955 painting Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O) is such a remarkable and important masterpiece that it could maintain the world record auction price for at least a decade, the auctioneer who sold it has predicted.
  There were whoops and whistles in the New York saleroom of Christie’s on Monday evening after Jussi Pylkkänen put down his gavel at $160m. Including comm
  
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• Picasso's Women of Algiers isn't even his best work – its $179m sale is all down to clever PR

  12-05-2015 17:33
  
  The ridiculous price that Women of Algiers (Version O) has fetched at auction has nothing whatsoever to do with its value as a work of art. It is a fine painting in its own right, of course, but no finer than many other paintings by Picasso.
  
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• How to become a lighting designer

  12-05-2015 17:30
  
  Marty Langthorne puts the spotlight on a career in lighting design: where to start, who to approach and why Turner offers the best inspirationWhen I was six, my mum took me to a puppet show in the Sydney suburbs. We sat very close to the action – on the floor with the other kids. I remember feeling this incredible sense of wonder at the world created onstage, which sparked my interest in performance. Now, as a fully fledged lighting designer, the most rewarding part of the job is being integra
  
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• Peter Kennard review – a thrillingly grotesque montage of modern times

  12-05-2015 17:21
  
  Imperial War Museum, London
  A gas-masked globe, a skeleton with a mushroom-cloud head … this new exhibition of Kennard’s violent political cut-ups is brave, brazen – and shows the truth behind the bright shining lies of warWar is an infernal engine of art. In the 20th century, it caused artists to lose all faith in form, beauty – those old civilised lies that sent young men to die. In 1916 in Zurich, as a generation went to its slaughter, the Cabaret Voltaire was founded and Dada began �
  
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• How “We Shall Overcome” Became An Iconic Song (The Man Responsible For It Just Died)

  12-05-2015 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We Shall Overcome” is a staple for civil-rights protests—and for that matter, for any kind of social-justice movement. The Library of Congress calls it “the most powerful song of the 20th century.” So it was a surprise to learn that not only is the identity of the person who made it into that anthem known, […]
  
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• Morning Links: Turner Prize Edition

  12-05-2015 15:35 via artnews.com
  The Turner Prize shortlist has been announced, and the list includes Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel, Nicole Wermers and the collective Assemble. [The Art Newspaper] A “machine vision algorithm,” has surpassed art historians at identifying artists and their unique styles of painting. … Read More
  
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• Are “Age Of Enlightenment” Ideas Messing With Our Ability To Cope In The Age Of Social Media?

  12-05-2015 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crawford’s basic beef with the Enlightenment is that it so loosened our grip on reality, plunging us into the wishy-washiness of our own subjectivities, that we lack the grit to resist the usurpation of our “attentional environment” by all the aspects of contemporary life that tick Crawford off.
  
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• Can “Art Therapy” Effectively Fight Terrorism? (Here’s Somewhere It’s Working)

  12-05-2015 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The clients were taught through examples of how to express their feelings and release their aggressive tendencies through drawings and paintings. ‘Get that negative energy out on the paper…. ‘It is safe here’ was the theme of one art therapy session.”
  
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• Yale To Build A Major New Cultural Commons

  12-05-2015 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With the transformation, Yale would be among the best equipped universities in the Northeast for arts programming while the expansion would help New Haven, a struggling city where the university is a major employer as well as tourist draw, with its two art galleries and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.”
  
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• ACLU Asks For Investigation Into Hollywood Hiring Practices Of Women

  12-05-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Gender discrimination is illegal. And really Hollywood doesn’t get this free pass when it comes to civil rights and gender discrimination.”
  
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• Turner prize 2015: an end to the same-old same-old. Bring it on!

  12-05-2015 15:13
  
  The jury of this year’s prize are doing what they should do – giving intriguing new art a platform. They’ve certainly piqued this critic’s curiosityOk, Mister finger-on-the-pulse, down-and-dirty art critic, what are you going to say about the artists in this year’s Turner prize shortlist, none of whom have you seriously looked at or thought about?Once, I passed Assemble’s temporary cinema in a disused petrol station on London’s Clerkenwell Road, but never visited. Last year, at the
  
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• Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane

  12-05-2015 14:43
  
  The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artistPicasso was the greatest artist of the 20th century but Women of Algiers, which has just set a new world record at Christie’s, is nothing like his masterpiece. It is certainly interesting, though. In his later years, Picasso embarked on a series of interpretations of some of his favourite paintings. Women of Algiers (version O), painted in the 1950s, is one o
  
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  12-05-2015 14:18
  
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• Turner prize wildcard: how young architecture crew Assemble rocked the art world

  12-05-2015 12:57
  
  They don’t claim to be artists, and none of them has even qualified as an architect, but that hasn’t stopped this charming collective from building pop-up cinemas, community housing projects – and accidentally making the Turner shortlist When a group of graduates got together to build a temporary cinema in an abandoned petrol station in Clerkenwell in 2010, they had little idea that, just five years later, they would be shortlisted for the Turner prize. But not much about the dazzling traj
  
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• Assemble: how a young architectural collective became a Turner prize wildcard

  12-05-2015 12:57
  
  They don’t claim to be artists, and none of them has even qualified as an architect, but that hasn’t stopped this charming collective from building pop-up cinemas, community housing projects – and accidentally making the Turner shortlist When a group of graduates got together to build a temporary cinema in an abandoned petrol station in Clerkenwell in 2010, they had little idea that, just five years later, they would be shortlisted for the Turner prize. But not much about the dazzling traj
  
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• Turner prize 2015: fur coats and a building crew – the shortlist in pictures

  12-05-2015 12:30
  
  As the nominations for the biggest prize in British art honour Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel, Nicole Wermers and the architecture collective Assemble, have a flick through the work that caught the judges’ attention
  Turner prize 2015 shortlist: three women – and a housing estateContinue reading...
  
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• Turner Prize 2015: Radical architect collective has grand designs on prize with housing estate

  12-05-2015 12:01
  
  A collective of radical architects who revitalised a housing estate in Liverpool have grand designs on the Turner Prize after being shortlisted for the British art world’s leading award.
  
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• Turner Prize 2015: Radical architect collective has grand designs on prize after nomination with housing estate

  12-05-2015 12:01
  
  A collective of radical architects who revitalised a housing estate in Liverpool have grand designs on the Turner Prize after being shortlisted for the British art world’s leading award.
  
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• Turner prize 2015 shortlist: three women – and a housing estate

  12-05-2015 12:00
  
  An 18-strong architecture crew win a historic nomination for regenerating a rundown area of Liverpool, but all four artists in this year’s lineup have a strong desire to make the world a better placePolitical art with a social conscience is to dominate this year’s Turner prize, with a shortlist that includes a direct action collective of 18 young designers and architects who have helped breathe new life into a rundown Liverpool housing estate.
  “In an age when anything can be art, why not h
  
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• Alberto Giacometti sculpture 'Pointing Man' sells for record breaking $141m as National Portrait Gallery announces his first ever solo exhibition

  12-05-2015 11:29
  
  In a record breaking Christie’s auction in New York, not only did Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (version O)” set a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, but Alberto Giacometti’s “Pointing Man” also became the most valuable sculpture, fetching just over $141 million.
  
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• I Wrote A Love Letter

  12-05-2015 11:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In those days I rode the bus for you. Dark hours stacking upon themselves. Countless hours, I tried to count them. I learned to breathe. I learned to pray. I stared out at frozen fields. The people shifted, uncomfortable in their straightback seats, uncomforted. The bus pushed on, fatigued, relentless as the night. I stared ... Continue ReadingThe post I Wrote A Love Letter appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Picasso’s ‘Women Of Algiers’ Is Now The Highest-Priced Artwork Ever Sold At Auction

  12-05-2015 10:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To a medley of whoops, hollers and gasps on Monday night, Pablo Picasso’s 1955 painting Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) sold for $179.4 million including fees at Christie’s ‘Looking Forward to the Past’ sale of artworks spanning the 20th century.”
  
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• Berlin Philharmonic Deadlocked On Choice of New Chief Conductor

  12-05-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Members of the Berlin Philharmonic abandoned a vote on a new chief conductor after more than 11 hours of discussion when they were unable to agree a successor to Sir Simon Rattle when he finishes his contract in three years’ time.”
  
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• NPR Launches Next Phase Of Plan To Become The Pandora Of News

  12-05-2015 10:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The announcement by National Public Radio that it’s opening access to an application program interface, or API, seemed like it should be of interest only to a relative handful of tech developers. In fact, it is a significant and smart next step in NPR’s strategy to become the Pandora of news.”
  
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• Parents In Idaho, North Carolina Want ‘Of Mice And Men,’ ‘Kite Runner’ Removed From High Schools

  12-05-2015 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In Coeur d’Alene, four members of a committee dedicated to curriculum review have urged the city’s school district to ban Steinbeck’s famous novel from being taught in classrooms … In Asheville, one school has already suspended [Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 bestseller], a frequently challenged novel about an Afghan boy growing up in Kabul.”
  
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• Librarians Fight Back Against NSA’s Big Brother-Style Mass Surveillance

  12-05-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The American Library Association has counted privacy among its ‘core values’ since 1939, but [Alison] Macrina thinks that now, in the age of dragnet data collection by intelligence agencies and corporations, librarians aren’t taking enough concrete steps to protect their patrons, in many cases because they don’t have the technical skills.” And she’s working to […]
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Offers Discount Tours On Days When Tour Guides Strike

  12-05-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Shakespeare’s Globe is to slash the cost of tours at the venue by 26% when guides begin two days of strikes later this month. … Tour guides who are members of backstage union BECTU will strike on May 18 and June 1, when the venue will make use of specially developed audio guides instead.”
  
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• Picasso's Women of Algiers sets new world record at auction – video

  12-05-2015 10:16
  
  A painting by Pablo Picasso sets a new world record at auction, selling for $179.4m (£115.2m) in New York. The oil painting, Women of Algiers (Version O), is part of a series of 15 paintings created in 1954 and 1955. The successful bid was made via telephone by an anonymous buyer. Christie's auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen says the sale was 'a piece of cultural history' Continue reading...
  
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• Electra’s Sorrow And Rage, Explored In Cabaret

  12-05-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Each major character in Ann Liv Young’s Elektra Cabaret tries to break the tragedy with a different emotional code. All of us at times react sorrowfully like the wounded Elektra, cruelly like the controlling mother Klytemnestra, vindictively like the raging prodigal son Orestes, or vacuously like the denying younger sister Chrysothemis.”
  
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• Haruki Murakami On Aum Shinrikyo, Terrorism, Nuclear Power, And His Advice Column

  12-05-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m saying quite honestly what I’m usually thinking about … I was thinking it might be something like the Agora of Athens in ancient Greece, where everyone came together and anyone could put up their hand and say whatever they wanted to say.”
  
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• I Was David Letterman’s Animal Handler

  12-05-2015 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I never could have imagined that my career would involve sitting beside sloths and snakes on a late-night TV couch.’ “Jungle” Jack Hanna writes about the baby hippo he brought to his first appearance on Dave’s show, the camels that took out all the ceiling panels, the hyena that drank from Dave’s mug, the armadillos […]
  
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• So, What Do French Muslims Think About The PEN/Charlie Hebdo Controversy?

  12-05-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The people arguing about PEN’s award to the magazine’s surviving staffers have mostly been anglophones, many of whom had never heard of Charlie Hebdo before the murders. Finally, someone has asked French Muslims – well, seven of them, anyway – for their opinions.
  
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• Trolls, What Constitutes Trolling, And How It Has Changed

  12-05-2015 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Way back in 1992, a writer for the Toronto Star described online trolls as people who “fish for flames” the way fishermen troll for fish. These days, Laura Miller observes, “‘troll’ is a word pinned on whoever happens to be upsetting us online.” Miller looks at the motivations of trolls and the rise of reverse […]
  
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• Picasso painting breaks record for most expensive artwork sold at auction

  12-05-2015 09:06
  
  Women of Algiers (Version O) exceeds estimates to sell for $179m at Christie’s in New York, amid high demand from collectors for masterpieces
  A painting by Pablo Picasso has set a new world record for the most expensive artwork to be sold at auction after reaching $179m (£115m) in New York.Women of Algiers (Version O) had been expected to exceed $140m before the auction but the final price far exceeded those estimates in a sale at Christie’s auction house at a time when collectors’ a
  
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• Adelaide Festival Has A New Director – A Pair Of Them, In Fact

  12-05-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nine years after they last shared the running of Sydney’s Belvoir St theatre, Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy have been announced as the new co-artistic directors of the Adelaide festival of the arts.”
  
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• Do Memes – As Transmissible, Mutating Entities Like Viruses Or Genes – Really Exist? (Nah, Probably Not)

  12-05-2015 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  At least not the way Richard Dawkins theorized them. That was a metaphor, whether Dawkins realized it or not.
  
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• Can You Really Make A Dance About Britain’s 1984-85 Miners’ Strike?

  12-05-2015 08:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The strike was a defining political and social moment in recent British history; it changed the nation, and its repercussions are still being felt. But it is a complex and difficult subject to navigate in an abstract art form such as dance.” Even so, Rambert Dance Company artistic director Mark Baldwin gave it a go, […]
  
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• How Does A 45-Year-Old Ballet Dancer Keep His Body In Shape For Strenuous Roles?

  12-05-2015 08:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gary Avis of London’s Royal Ballet has a daily routine “as strenuous as [that of] any professional rugby player: three hours of training each morning, five or six hour rehearsals in the afternoons and a three hour performance in the evening. Yet with a physique that sportsmen half his age would envy, he shows no […]
  
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• A Picasso has just been bought for a record US$179m, but is it worth it?

  12-05-2015 08:00
  
  The record-breaking sum paid at auction for Picasso’s Women of Algiers might have been better spent – but don’t expect such sales to stop anytime soonThe overnight record-breaking sale of Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O, 1954-55) for US$179m at Christie’s in New York should come as no surprise. In the rarified air at the top end of the art market, where billionaires and oligarchs put down a hundred million plus change for a trophy piece, numbers become meaningless.Related:
  
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